Michael R. Strain, Columnist

Embracing Populism Means Ignoring the Common Good

On trade, entitlements and immigration, conservatives are losing their traditional understanding of the purpose of economic policy.

September 26, 2017 at 12:30 PM UTC

By Michael R. Strain

Michael R. Strain is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is director of economic policy studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of “The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It).”

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One of the unfortunate aspects of Trumpian populism is the effect it is having on our discussion of economic policy, and thereby on our understanding of the underlying goals that policies are meant to advance.

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